Volker Europas, wahret eure heiligsten guter [Nations of Europe, join in the defence of your faith and your home]

German anti-Bolshevism poster which translates as ; 'Nations of Europe join in the defence of your faith and your home' . The poster depicts a heroic figure pointing to a menacing cloud with a skull in the middle. The poster was printed by Hollenbaum and Schmidt, a German poster printing organisation which operated from c. 1909, throughout the First World War and afterwards in Berlin. The 1919 campaign for the German National Assembly stimulated propagandists on both the Right and the Left, which manifested itself in a classic battle of slogans and images plastered to the walls of German cities. On one side, the proletariat created posters calling for a restoration of order in the streets and, on the other, posters called for revolution. Similar in style, the propagandists produced posters that are purposefully crude, dark and expressionistic. Each poster tackles the problems of hunger, unemployment and exploitation left in the wake of the War with the intent to capture the hearts and minds of a divided and conquered German public.